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CHINESE SUCCESS. (Rec. 11.15.) CHUNGKING, July 3. A Chinese communique says: American troops wiped out a Japanese suicide attempt to penetrate the Ai-lied-held Myitkyina airport. Meanwhile the Chinese maintained their Lungling positions against repeatea attacks. However, two hundred. Japanese broke out from Pingka, after being encircled for a month. (Rec. 10.55.) KANDY, July 3. / Brigadier R. N. F. Marks, aged 43, Senior Administrative Staff Officer to the late General Wingate, is missing, and is presumed to have been killed m an air crash over friendly territory. He had set off in a Dakota from the Chindits’ base for General Lentaigne’s headquarters. The weather was extremely bad.
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Grey River Argus, 4 July 1944, Page 5
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